![]() As many of my readers, however, may not have these works to refer to, I will here give a few of his letters to myself which have not yet been published, together with some of my own, and also occasional extracts from some of Darwin's that have already appeared, in order to make clear the nature of our discussions, and also, perhaps, to throw a little light upon our respective characters. A considerable selection of ourĬorrespondence has been published in the "Life and Letters" (1887), and especially in "More Letters" (1903) while several of the more interesting of these were contained in the one-volume life, entitled "Charles Darwin," which appeared in 1892. My first letter from him dealing with scientific matters was in August, 1862, and our correspondence was very extensive during the period occupied in writing or correcting his earlier books on evolution, down to the publication of "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals," in 1872, and afterwards, at longer intervals, to within less than a year of his death. Mark's Crescent for a quiet talk or to see some of my collections. On these occasions I usually lunched with him and his brother, and sometimes one other visitor, and had a little talk on some of the matters specially interesting him. ![]() Erasmus Darwin, in Queen Anne Street, which he usually did every year when he was well enough, in order to see his friends and collect information for his various works. A year or two later I spent a week-end with him in company with Bates, Jenner Weir, and a few other naturalists but my most frequent interviews with him were when he spent a few weeks with his brother, Dr. Darwin invited me to come to Down for a night, where I had the great pleasure of seeing him in his quiet home, and in the midst of his family. SOON after I returned home, in the summer of 1862, Mr. 1 MY LIFE A RECORD OF EVENTS AND OPINIONS CHAPTER XXV The Frontispiece to "Darwinism" (age 66) completes the Series. The portraits of the Author illustrating this work show him at the following ages:- AGE viii DIAGRAMS ILLUSTRATING EXPERIMENTS TO SHOW CON- VEXITY OF THE EARTH GATEWAY TO GARDEN OF THE GODS: WITH PIKE'S PEAK ILLUSTRATIONS "OLD ORCHARD," BROADSTONE (Built in 1902) MY CHARACTER-NEW IDEAS-PREDICTIONS FULFILLED SPIRITUALISTIC EXPERIENCES IN ENGLAND AND AMERICAĪ CHAPTER ON MONEY MATTERS-EARNINGS AND LOSSES- SPECULATIONS AND LAW-SUITS TWO BIOLOGICAL INQUIRERS: AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF SPIRITUALISM MESMERISM TO SPIRITUALISM-CORRESPONDENCE WITH SCIEN- TIFIC AND LITERARY MEN LAND NATIONALIZATION TO SOCIALISM, AND THE FRIENDS THEY BROUGHT ME LECTURING TOUR IN AMERICA-CALIFORNIA TO QUEBEC. ![]() LECTURING TOUR IN AMERICA - WASHINGTON TO SAN FRANCISCO SAMUEL BUTLER, PROFESSOR HAUGHTONĪN AMERICAN LECTURE TOUR-BOSTON TO WASHINGTON SYBERIA II REPAIRING THE HORSES PROMY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES-SIR JAMES BROOKE, PRO FESSOR ROLLESTON, MR. MY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES-SPENCER, HUXLEY, MIVART, ETC WITH FACSIMILE LETTERS, ILLUSTRATIONS AND PORTRAITS "GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS," "NATURAL "MAN'S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE," "THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO," "DARWINISM," ![]()
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